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This report from the city comptroller says, on average, the public sector doesn’t pay as well as the private sector.

I’m going through the report now, but two passages caught my attention.

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The most highly-educated, highly-paid workers in City government earn relatively less than they do in the private sector, and workers at the lower end of the pay scale earn more. In fact, the pattern seems to be even more exaggerated in…

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